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Episode-626- Prepping from Starting Out to Advanced Tactics

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Modern Survival| 25 Comments
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Food Storage is One Major Component of Survival

Food Storage is One Major Component of Survival. - Photo Credit to Linda & Clark via flickr

With the disaster in Japan I am getting a lot of emails from brand new people and long time listeners, the basic question is “what should we do”?  Well this may be hard for you to believe given the non stop media coverage of the burning reactor but the answer is, unless you are in Japan you should probably not do anything.  That said getting out of Japan unless you are part of the relief efforts probably isn’t a bad idea.

You certainly shouldn’t go spend 100 dollars for a bottle of potassium iodine on eBay because you will be able to get all you want for about 15 bucks a bottle in about a month, there is really nothing for you to do, perhaps other than make a contribution to the relief efforts in Japan.

What we all should be doing right now personally is using this current disaster as a gut check of sorts.  Rather than worry about some fictitious cloud of death, that just isn’t going to happen you should be asking the following.  What would it have meant to me had this disaster occurred in California or New York?  What if it had just been a tsunami, just a nuclear accident or just an earth quake but had happened much closer to me, would I have been prepared enough to shelter in place or get out of dodge?

With that in mind I think it is time we take a show to go back and just talk about prepping in general, the tenets of preparedness and self evaluation of how we would handle a disaster that wasn’t thousands of miles away.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Why now is not the time to panic but to plan
  • Why 30 days is the absolute minimum amount of food you should have on hand
  • Why having a means of water purification is more important than water storage
  • Why you need both lethal and non lethal methods of self defense
  • Getting started with personal energy independence
  • Understanding how most people are enslaved by the systems
  • Realizing the link between liberty and prepping

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Episode-625- Keeping Your Wits When Others are Losing Their’s

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Modern Survival| 37 Comments
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Today we will talk at least a little bit about the current disasters in Japan but only as a frame of reference.  For instance right now people are rushing to buy Geiger counters and potassium iodide supplements and many are paying a premium to get them NOW before they can’t get one at all.

Such actions are the actions of scared and more importantly clueless people, not an empowered population who understands the current threat to our nation, or lack thereof.

The reality is most people in the modern world have lost touch with an ancient survival component that is built into our mental and physical wiring.  When the component emerges and is not fully understood it leads to a cycle of poor decisions that make bad situations worse.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • The initial extreme, normalcy bias
  • The emergence of the predator/prey instinct we have tried to deny
  • The second extreme, overcompensation
  • The third extreme, hyper-competitiveness
  • The fourth extreme, paranoia
  • The fifth extreme, depression
  • The sixth extreme, regret
  • Breaking or staying out of the cycle
  • Past disasters and possible disasters and what they teach us
  • Why you always must ask questions before you act

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Episode-414- Jack on the Baldy and the Blonde Show

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Modern Survival| 3 Comments
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Well even though I am on the road today I do have a show for you today.  Today I am playing a rebroadcast of the Baldy and the Blonde Show from WGSO 990AM in New Orleans, LA.

They gave me a great interview discussing the first five tenents of the Modern Survival Philosophy and Modern Survivalism as a method of early retirement.

Please Note – There may not be a show every day this week because I will be traveling working on the next edition of the martial arts DVD series of Ballistic Striking – With Val Riazanov

I really recommend checking out Baldy and the Blonde’s website and you may even want to listen to the entire show from the date of my interview.  They covered a new Senate bill

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Episode-279- The Foundational Principle of Modern Survivalism

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Modern Survival| 3 Comments
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Today we discuss principle one of modern survival philosophy,

“Everything you do to prepare for disaster should improve your position in life even if nothing ever goes wrong.”

Today I give you the background on where that principle came from, how I was inspired by many already living by it but just not putting it that way yet.  I tell you the story of my slumber during my years of success and what led me to forget what I knew to be true.  How over time many events led me to reconnect with what I was taught about frugality, common sense, preparing and nature from my childhood.

More importantly I will tell you what I discovered about why people don’t prep, why they ignore stark reality and how to use the first principle to reach people who are just looking for something that makes prepping “okay” in their minds.

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Episode-260- 12 Permaculture Principles Applied to Modern Survival

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Modern Survival| 10 Comments
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Today I decided to continue on yesterday’s podcast about permaculture’s 5 zones and 7 layers and go over the 12 guiding principles of permacultre.  I also expand each one and explain how they directly apply to the overriding concepts of modern survival philosophy.

Today we name Barack Obama assclown of the day for opposing offshore drilling for US oil by US companies but supporting funding a 2 billion dollar “loan” to Brazil so they can you guessed it, drill offshore in Brazil.  We also name the Semper Fi fund as heroes of the day for the work they do for injured Marines.

Tune in today to hear the 12 Permaculture Design Principles and Alternative Views of Them…

  1. Observe and Interact – or – Be a Part of Things
  2. Catch and Store Energy – or – Be an Ant not a Grasshopper
  3. Obtain a Yield – or – Get an ROI on Your Efforts
  4. Apply Self Regulation and Accept Feedback – or – Don’t Kill the Golden Goose
  5. Use and Value Resources and Services – or -Be Efficient to Become Independent
  6. Produce No Waste – or – Make Use of Everything
  7. Design from Patterns to Details – or -Be an Artist and Step Back for a Longer View
  8. Integrate Rather than Segregate – or -Understand the Power of Teams
  9. Use Small and Slow Solutions – or – Focus On What You Can Do First
  10. Use and Value Diversity – or – Practice Risk Reduction
  11. Use Edges and Value the Marginal – or – Seek Alliances Not Conflicts
  12. use Creativity and Adapt to Change – or – Improvise, Adapt and Overcome

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Episode-116- Making Due With What You Have

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
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This is my first show after returning from my vacation that ran from Dec. 25th till January 4th.  We took that time to go up to our retreat property in Arkansas and do some improvements and got the opportunity to run a bit of a “readiness drill” that we had not planned.

Tune in today to hear…

  • A reminder that I want, enjoy and appreciate your feedback even when you disagree with me
  • “Global Warming” strikes again (smirk) the roads in Dallas are iced over and I am broadcasting from home
  • How we dealt with our well being out of service for three days during our vacation
  • Saved by our rain catch system, you learn to appreciate a flushing toilet
  • Using a wheel barrel for additional rain water catching, it worked and it was what we had
  • Building raised beds with native stone (pictures coming soon)
  • Considering a pool, there are more then one advantage to one
  • Thinking about “improvements” the difference between country and city improvements when considering resale value
  • The strawberry tower, an idea that will produce strawberries year round
  • Chery bushes that produce in their first year
  • Cant afford a rain barrel, how about a 10 dollar rubber maid trash can from Walmart
  • Using your mind to improvise what you have on hand and the advantages specific to your situation
  • 100-200 dollars cuts your hot water costs forever
  • Some cool container gardening ideas to get production in any home
  • Cheap grow lights?  Check Walmart again, 10 bucks each including bulb and fixtures
  • Consider “dwarf” trees and bushes if you plan to move in the next few years, take your trees with you when you leave

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